Before Election Day and after, Obama's staff has been in touch with auto executives, industry sources said.

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Chrysler is currently in talks with the United Auto Workers Union (UAW), over pay and benefits for its staff.

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But they were written by Britain's Central Policy Review staff about the sorry state of the U.K. auto industry in 1975, when output had fallen by one-quarter in a decade.

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